May 30 2012
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May 28 2012
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“ School-days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. It doesn’t take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he learns it or not.
— H.L. Mencken.
(Source: light-essence, via breathemystardust)
May 27 2012
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“We let Willow cut her hair. When you have a little girl, it’s like how can you teach her that you’re in control of her body? If I teach her that I’m in charge of whether or not she can touch her hair, she’s going to replace me with some other man when she goes out in the world. She can’t cut my hair but that’s her hair. She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she’s going out with a command that it is hers. She is used to making those decisions herself. We try to keep giving them those decisions until they can hold the full weight of their lives.” (via Why Will And Jada Pinkett Smith Let Daughter Willow Cut Her Hair - The Frisky)
(via lipstick-feminists)
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what I wore last night for my B-day party
yup its my birthday so I can wear underwear if I wanna
This is my roommate, Mary. She inspires me.
May 26 2012
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Dream 5/26/2012
I had a dream I was swimming in the ocean in Hawaii. I could feel the sun slowly fading away and twilight settling in as I swam amongst one or two other people. I was pretty far out, just swimming, and they were up-shore from me surfing. The water sucked back farther each time it alchemized itself into the formation of a wave, then crashed heavily onto the shoreline. One of the people surfing kind of near me was a woman with a name that started with a C, like Coral or Catalina. She was a native Hawaiian and very comfortable being amongst the huge sets that kept rolling in. For some reason, I knew I needed to get out of the water and as far away from it as I could. I body-surfed to the shore and ran up the stairs of the building. I found a place I could both see the beach from and hold on to something. The people around me said a Coral or Catalina wave was coming. I realized the woman I met out there wasn’t really a person, but an ocean spirit who made the waves.
I watched the water and waited for what I knew was coming. Eventually it sucked back and started growing into a frighteningly gigantic tsunami-esq wave. I held onto the building because I didn’t know what else to do. Lightening starting happening and the native Hawaiians around me took that as a sign from the nature gods. It grew and collected water for what seemed like a very long time, and eventually crashed onto the shore, delivering bodies of surfers and swimmers with it. Though somehow they were alive and happy.
When the water was in front of our building, it was stopped by this huge glass wall. Part of the native Hawaiian’s ritual was that you had to experience the Coral/Catalina wave. So they opened parts of the wall and I jumped in to this wave that was now basically a gigantic swimming pool. It was hard to get to the surface to breathe, but eventually it calmed down. I felt relief knowing I had survived what I thought would kill me. Until a crazy hawaiian man came running out onto the pool deck and shot me in each of my legs. I thought I would die then too, but I looked at the wounds and they quickly healed over.
May 25 2012
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Olympia->Sea/Tac->Redmond->Seattle->Redmond->Olympia
Driving on the 520 between Redmond and Seattle, I watched the most beautiful sunset creep down over The Sound and light the tips of masts, sending shadows of sails across this now familiar body of water.
As I neared Olympia, I searched my mind and body for the multitude of slight feelings that accompanies ones return home. Instead of this familiar nostalgia usually inspired by my surroundings, I was able to feel myself and understand this sense of self as
h o m e
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May 24 2012
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The Sour Houses presents:
A very Mary birthday!
Last night we celebrated Mary’s 22nd birthday. Mary and Marissa made delicious curry over purple jasmine rice, Courtney brought apples, veggies, brie, and hummus, and I made spelt yogurt flat bread and sweet potato hummus. There was also plenty of wine, music, and dancing. Nights like these make life so rich.
<3 Sour House
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May 21 2012
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Droppin mad beats while makin beet lipstick.
(You make my heart skippa beet.)
Mary, Sammy, and I made beet lipstick!
coconut oil + beeswax + beet juice
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A nourishing feast of medicinal-herb infused soup (burdock root, astragalus root, and sage leaf) with fresh pain au levain and grass-fed butter.
Today, we celebrated the new moon and solar eclipse in Gemini.
May 20 2012
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Air plant a bloomin
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An impromptu herbal spa day with my roommates and other awesome ladies. We made ginger kidney poultices and licorice/mint/nettle/rose tea.
Dec 16 2011
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“ Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
— Hermann Hesse
(Source: eternalconsciousness, via breathingwithbrahma-deactivated)
